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Brief History of Friendship Day:

Friendship day is celebrate every year august 1stSunday. A Friendship bracelet is a bracelet given by one person (friend) to another as a symbol of Friendship.

The day has been celebrated in several southern South American countries for many years, particularly in Paraguay, where the first World Friendship Day – International Friendship Day was proposed in 1958.

Initially created by the greeting card industry, evidence from social networking sites shows a revival of interest in the holiday that may have grown with the spread of the Internet, particularly in India, Bangladesh, and Malaysia. Digital communication modes such as the Internet and mobile phones may be helping to popularize the custom, since greetingfriends en masse is now easier than before.

Some friends acknowledge each other with exchanges of giftsand cards on this day. Friendship bands are very popular in India, Nepal, Bangladesh and parts of South America. With the advent of social networking sites, Friendship Day is also being celebrated online. The commercialization of the Friendship Day celebrations has led to some dismissing it as a “marketing gimmick”. But nowadays it is celebrated on the first Sunday of August rather than 30 July. However, on 27 July 2011the 65th Session of the United Nations General Assembly declared 30 July as “International Day of Friendship“. The idea of a World Friendship Day was first proposed on 20 July 1958 by Dr. Ramon Artemio Bracho during a dinner with friends in Puerto Pinasco, a town on the River Paraguay about 200 miles north of Asuncion, Paraguay.

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United States:

World Friendship Day is a celebrated on June 30 in the United States in pockets of Massachusetts, Ohio, and occasionally New Hampshire. The holiday is often observed on the prior Saturday. As the name suggests, the primary focus is celebrating Friendships, old and new.

Argentina:

Friend’s Day has in recent years turned into a very popular mass phenomenon. In 2005, the amount of well-wishing friends led breakdown of the mobile phone network in the cities of Buenos Aires, Mendoza, Córdoba and Rosario, comparable to the one experienced in 2004 on Christmas and New Year’s Day. Seats in most restaurants, bars, and other establishmentsare often completely booked a week before the celebration.

Since the death of the Argentine cartoonist and writer Roberto Fontanarrosa in 2007, a proposal has existed to change the date to July 19, the day of his death.

Brazil:

In Brazil Friend’s Day is also celebrated on July 20.

Paraguay:

In Paraguay, the eve of July 30 is used for giving presents to close friends and loved ones, and celebrations are a common sight in bars and nightclubs. The game of the Invisible Friend (Amigo Invisible) is considered a tradition, in which small sheets of paper with names are given to all members of a group, each of them secretly selects one, and on July 30gives a present to the person on the paper. This custom is practiced in both schools and workplaces in Asunción and other

Paraguayan cities.

Peru:

Since 2009, Peru celebrates “El dia del Amigo”on the first Saturday in July. This day was proposed by Pilsen Callao. The objective was to recognize true Friendship and differentiate its celebration from Valentine’s Day.